All Anne Sexton Quotes
- I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. Book
- The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. All
- The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and… Acre
- A woman who writes feels too much. Inspirational
- ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar. Bar
- ... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is. Ask
- And the aura of you remains, remains, remains… Aura
- I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? Deformed
- After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American… American
- The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. Branch
- I am younger each year at the first snow. Each
- I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. Crazy
- It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Children
- Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Bad Ass
- God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. Beer
- Need is not quite belief. Belief
- Even without wars, life is dangerous. Dangerous
- Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Exuberance
- God owns heaven but He craves the earth. Craves
- The joy that isn't shared dies young. Die Young
- Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.... Inspirational
- As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love. Been
- Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out… Down
- And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it… Blessed
- As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. Funny